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Sorting a table causes Word to crash
I work for a lawfirm, and one of our attorneys has been
having much trouble with some of his tables. He has a table that is about 120 rows or 60 pages of text that will not sort. I have already tried many things to fix this and have come up with nothing. Being versed in VBA, my first course of action was to copy all the text into a new table in a new document. I wrote a procedure that stored the text in each cell in an array of strings (only the characters, no formatting), and then put that in a new table. I copied over hyperlinks in the same way. Now, the table sorts fine, but the document is no longer formatted. I send the document back to a legal asst. to be formatted, which she does w/o using the format painter and the original document. However, after the document is reformatted, the sorting problems are back. Word will either crash and give you doc. recovery/error reporting screen, or it will tell you there is not enough memory and disk space to sort the table. It does this regardless of the data type (text/date/number) and regardless of whether header rows are included. But as I said it sorts smoothly and quickly when the text is not formatted. All available service packs and updates have been installed on this WinXP machine (both for OS and Office 2003). Can anyone help? |
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Sorting a table causes Word to crash
Peter Rabbit's thread in this group may provide a clue. Are there paragraphs
within the table cells after formatting? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Nick Durcholz wrote: I work for a lawfirm, and one of our attorneys has been having much trouble with some of his tables. He has a table that is about 120 rows or 60 pages of text that will not sort. I have already tried many things to fix this and have come up with nothing. Being versed in VBA, my first course of action was to copy all the text into a new table in a new document. I wrote a procedure that stored the text in each cell in an array of strings (only the characters, no formatting), and then put that in a new table. I copied over hyperlinks in the same way. Now, the table sorts fine, but the document is no longer formatted. I send the document back to a legal asst. to be formatted, which she does w/o using the format painter and the original document. However, after the document is reformatted, the sorting problems are back. Word will either crash and give you doc. recovery/error reporting screen, or it will tell you there is not enough memory and disk space to sort the table. It does this regardless of the data type (text/date/number) and regardless of whether header rows are included. But as I said it sorts smoothly and quickly when the text is not formatted. All available service packs and updates have been installed on this WinXP machine (both for OS and Office 2003). Can anyone help? |
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Sorting a table causes Word to crash
I would think there would almost have to be with 60 page = 120 rows.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Peter Rabbit's thread in this group may provide a clue. Are there paragraphs within the table cells after formatting? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Nick Durcholz wrote: I work for a lawfirm, and one of our attorneys has been having much trouble with some of his tables. He has a table that is about 120 rows or 60 pages of text that will not sort. I have already tried many things to fix this and have come up with nothing. Being versed in VBA, my first course of action was to copy all the text into a new table in a new document. I wrote a procedure that stored the text in each cell in an array of strings (only the characters, no formatting), and then put that in a new table. I copied over hyperlinks in the same way. Now, the table sorts fine, but the document is no longer formatted. I send the document back to a legal asst. to be formatted, which she does w/o using the format painter and the original document. However, after the document is reformatted, the sorting problems are back. Word will either crash and give you doc. recovery/error reporting screen, or it will tell you there is not enough memory and disk space to sort the table. It does this regardless of the data type (text/date/number) and regardless of whether header rows are included. But as I said it sorts smoothly and quickly when the text is not formatted. All available service packs and updates have been installed on this WinXP machine (both for OS and Office 2003). Can anyone help? |
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